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gigantic pathside pumpkins (Taken with instagram) View high resolution

gigantic pathside pumpkins (Taken with instagram)

candle. troons finished his masters. rob is in town. (Taken with Instagram at Cassels & Sons Brewery) View high resolution

candle. troons finished his masters. rob is in town. (Taken with Instagram at Cassels & Sons Brewery)

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lunchtime outside megabites (Taken with instagram)

Kobe Beef Certificate

from Dinosaurs and Robots:

Lazily flipping through a free magazine, an article on Kobe beef caught my attention. Aside from the secrecy that shrounds the raising of these prized Japanese cows (a purported diet of beer and sake, daily massages to encourage maximum fat marbling) I was even more fascinated by this bit of info:

The Japanese take this breeding so seriously that their beef arrives at restaurants with a copy of the cow’s birth certificate, bearing the animal’s nose-print

I immediately wanted to see one of these certificates with the nose-print. It seems like a gesture of reverence as much as a validation of authenticity. Luckily, I found an example on mwoon’s flickr stream.

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